Subject: Vacation Program

From: Bruce Toews <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 19:26:02 -0600 ()

I know this doesn't have anything to do with Pine, but since the question
of a vacation program seems quite frequent on this list (I've seen it four
times in two weeks) can someone tell me where a Vacation program could be
FTPed from? Thanks.

Bruce

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From: [email-masked] (Andrew Starr)
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 22:51:35 -0500

In article
<[email-masked]>,

> times in two weeks) can someone tell me where a Vacation program could be

http://www.amherst.edu/~atstarr/computers/vacation.html
I'll post a perl script soon to the URL above, but note:

1) You need a unix shell account.
2) Your ISP may already have vacation installed systemwide. See page above
for info on how to use vacation if it is already installed.
3) If it is not already installed, perhaps e-mail your ISP and ask if they
would consider installing it; the perl script is free! If they are
concerned about infinite mail loops:
      a) it won't send autoreplies to various addresses such as
"mailerdaemon" or "postmaster" as well as anything with a header of
"Precedence: junk" or "Precedence: bulk" as all decent mailing lists should
use.
      b) It defaults to sending only one autoreply per address per week, so
even if it autoreplies to someone running an autoreply mechanism, the loop
will be a loop of 1 or perhaps 2 if the other person's autoreply uses a
slightly different return address.
4) You have to know what you are doing to install the script on your own
account on the ISP, but I think it can be done.
5) I did not write the script; I don't do any support for any of this; just
a "public service"

Good luck!  I'll try to upload the script by Saturday. (1/11/97)

-Andrew

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